primordial soup

English

Etymology

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Noun

primordial soup (countable and uncountable, plural primordial soups)

1. (informal, evolutionary theory) The state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history, during the early development of multicellular organisms.

Translations

state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: ursuppe c
• Dutch: oersoep (nl) f
• French: soupe primordiale f
• Finnish: alkuliemi (fi)
• German: Ursuppe (de) f
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: ősleves
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• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
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• Portuguese: sopa primordial f
• Russian: перви́чный бульо́н m (pervíčnyj bulʹón)
• Spanish: caldo primordial m, sopa primordial m
• Swedish: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: ilkel çorba

See also

• primordial sea
• primordial ocean
• primordial ooze